Lucca Promos

Lucca Promos is a public company owned by the Chamber of Commerce of Lucca and the Province of Lucca. It is a reference point for SMEs that want to go international. Its services concern promotion, development, assistance and consulting. It provides backing for the process of internationalization, as an institutional and technical representative in relationships with regional, national and internationalisation organizations. Lucca Promos develops permanent observation on internationalization markets and organizes international exhibitions, B2B events, seminars and business meetings in Lucca and abroad. Lucca Promos aims at boosting the local entrepreneurial system by set up of international partnerships and effective promotional networking. It pursues this goal through the direct involvement in international project proposals, mainly launched by European Commission. Lucca Promos plays a role in designing project ideas, managing partnership, administration and financial procedures.

Chamber of Commerce Belgium-Germany-Luxembourg

AHK debelux is a non-profit organization, which encourages and supports business relations between companies in Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg wanting to enter or expand in one of the three markets. Besides a broad network, AHK debelux offers its members and clients numerous services in order to facilitate the entrance to the respective markets and to succeed in their export business.

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Stefanie Heuer: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.Matthias Popp: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Italian National Tourism Agency

ENIT is the National Tourism Board and has been promoting Italy as a tourist destination for the last 100 years. ENIT has statutory autonomy with regards to management, accounting and organization, under the direction of the Minister of Tourism.

ENIT has the task of promoting Italy as a tourist destination by promoting the various touristic aspects of each region, promoting the various touristic aspects of Italy as a whole, putting together promotional strategies on a national and international level,providing consultation and assistance to the Italian State, the Italian Regions and to other public organizations with regards to tourist promotion of products, organizing consultancy services, assistance and collaboration in favor of public and private bodies, collaborating with the various diplomatic and consular offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc.

Idec Business Consultants, High Technology Applications, Training SA

IDEC S.A. is a consultancy, high tech and training company based in Piraeus Greece. It is active in both the Greek and transnational market. Being established in 1989, it has achieved a combination of experience and know-how accumulated over the years, with the ideas and innovation of its young collaborators. IDEC has a wide range of expertise and products in a broad spectrum of topics. Its customer focused approach, provides its customers with a unique set of all-round services and assists them in building the future they want.

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www.facebook.com/IDEC.SA

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Ms. Xenia Chronopoulou: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

University of Algarve

The University of the Algarve (UAlg) is a young (thirty years old) higher education public institution located in the southern region of Portugal. UAlg is located in four camps - three in Faro and one in Portimão. .

UAlg has around 750 permanent teaching and 450 research staff, evidencing a growing commitment towards R&D and Innovation.
The main research and teaching areas are: Earth and Marine Sciences, Health, Management and Tourism, Engineering and Technology and Social Sciences and Humanities.

CRIA is the Division of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer of the University of Algarve, aiming to promote relations between the university and the industry, increase the technology and knowledge transfer, support the establishment of new firms, generalize the use of industrial property rights mechanisms and developing technological infrastructures to enhance specific research fields in the Algarve..

CRIA was born in 2003, from the need of creating a service to support the development of advanced business ideas and inventions born at the university that could migrate to the market..

The intervention areas of CRIA are: Intellectual Property and Licensing Support, Commercialization and Technology Transfer, Entrepreneurship and Business Development, European Projects and Studies.

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www.facebook.com/criaualg

Contact person:

Ms. Eurídice Cristo: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Folklore Company of Varnavas

The Folklore Company of Varnava - Municipality of Marathon was founded in 2002 in Varnava region of Attika, Greece. In 2003 it launched the Interactive Agricultural History and Folklore Museum and in 2005 it established the Bread Museum (3000 exhibits and embroidered traditional breads from all over Greek territory and forty foreign countries)..The Company actively participates in the preservation of cultural heritage of our country and to the promotion of the tourism potential of the territory by exploring its cultural, agricultural, folklore, industrial etc history and current reality. It organises ongoing events and lectures on folklore issues, cultural heritage, promotion of young farmers, volunteering, environmental, nutrition and health, quality of life and it supports young artists.

For twelve years it carries out educational programs for school students and adults with the collaboration of teachers, historians, cooperatives, farmers, businessmen, music teachers, philologists, beekeepers, bakers, environmentalists, astrophysicists etc and in general with people with enthusiasm, responsibility, experience and scientific training.

It is also responsible for the training of tourism professionals and the crafts sector, the registration of of travel agencies or branch offices and reservation centers, the promotion of new technologies as tools for development, modernization and marketing of tourism and crafts in Castilla-La Mancha, as well as favoring its use in both sectors and the creation and promotion of tourism and craft brands of Castilla-La Mancha and its five provinces, with special attention to quality and authenticity.

miB – Make it Better

In its scope of activity, miB delivers: design, creation, development, adaptation and application of working models and tools for sustainable and responsible development, cooperating and supporting the groups that most need it, independently of borders. Its
mission is the development of human society, in all its aspects, in particular, economic, social, environmental and cultural, linked to moral duties of solidarity and justice and to other values inserted in its charter of principles.

miB gives high value to transnational and international cooperation, actually setting up, among other, several initiatives thematically framed by social entrepreneurship and sustainable tourism concepts.

www.facebook.com/ong.makeitBetter

Contact person:

Mr. José Manuel Nunes: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.